Professional SQL Server® 2008 Internals and Troubleshooting

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

FROM CHRISTIAN BOLTON: This book has been a far greater challenge and rewarding experience than I ever imagined. As with anything worth shedding blood, sweat, and tears over, it has taken a number of people, generous with their time and talents, to bring this project to life.

First of all, I'd like to thank my wife, Gemma, for her support and eternal patience during the many evenings and weekends I spent researching, writing, and reviewing content for "just a little longer." My children, Ava and Leighton, deserve a special thank you also for frequently pulling me back to what really matters with cheeky grins, demands to ride on my shoulders, spin in my chair, and an offer to draw a picture of a princess for me to put in the book.

I'd also like to thank my fellow authors and contributors for their outstanding efforts in bringing new, interesting, and well researched material to make this book unique:

• Justin Langford has been a great friend for many years and is always the first to offer support and encouragement to any project.

• James Rowland-Jones for setting impossible goals for his chapters on Locking and SQL Trace and then going past them.

• Brent Ozar, for transferring his easy-reading blog style into professional book chapters on Storage and Management Studio Reports that are a pleasure to read.

• Jonathan Kehayias for his excellent chapter on Waits and Extended Events that would have been a pale shadow of its current form had he not been involved in the book.

• Cindy Gross ...